...Something similar I have been told (I suspect it is a short-snouted weevil) occasionally injures beans. In this country, however, the mischief caused by the Bruchus is seldom very serious ; but in North Ame* YOL. i. :N rica another species {B. Pisi, L.) is most alarmingly destructive, its ravages being...

...Something similar I have been told (I suspect it is a short-snouted weevil) occasionally injures beans. In this country, however, the mischief caused by the...cultivation of that favourite pulse. No wonder then that Knlm should have been thrown into such a trepidation upon discovering some of these pestilent insects...

...Something similar, I have been told (I suspect it is a shortsnouted weevil), occasionally injures beans. In this country, however, the mischief caused by the...; but in North America another species (B. pisi), which is also found here, but not to any very injurious extent, is most alarmingly destructive, its...

...Something similar, I have been told (I suspect it is a shortsnouted weevil), occasionally injures beans. In this country, however, the mischief caused by the...serious; but in North America another species (B. pisi), which is also found here, but not to any very injurious extent, is most alarmingly destructive, its...

...JJrncfins jjui is the best known for its depredations on pease, beans &c. In North America its ravages were at one time so universal as to put an end in some places to the cultivation of these vegetables. Brw/iut jfranarau is another species which is often very destructive to the same...